Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country club"), gave all the rest (roughly $50,000 a year) to the Fromm Foundation. To help him select worthy recipients of his charities, Founder Fromm hired a permanent four-man reviewing staff of professional musicians* (supplemented by occasional guest experts), gave them complete autonomy to award grants to composers who might or might not be to his personal taste. Of the more than 600 young composers whose works the staff has reviewed, only 56 have received grants. "There is a lot of just good stuff; we are looking for art," explains Fromm. Although the initial awards are modest...
...soon as two disputants agree to arbitrate, the A.A.A. sends each a list of experts selected from its 13,000-man master panel, ascertains the man most acceptable to both sides, then sets the hearing. Average elapsed time from appeal to award: 70 days (two hours in one emergency) v. two to three years for a final court decision. A fur dispute that had dragged on for six weeks in a New York court and cost $9,000 in litigation fees ended up with a hung jury. Brought to the A.A.A., it was settled in five days. Cost: $507. Arbitration...
...award had the jury stopped: an $800 prize donated by Rome's Obelisco Gallery for the "most nonconformist" work. After surveying the field (including a blank, punctured canvas and an 18-in.-square sheet of rusted metal punctured by 3-in. nails on which were impaled two pingpong balls), the international jury gave up, decided that the task of picking only one was impossible...
...Mood for Love (Amru Sani; Grand Award). East Indian Entertainer (New Faces of '56) Sani begins this oldie with a series of racking, echoing groans, but then picks up a twinkle of humor that makes everything all right...
...three years of existence, Adventure has proved itself the busiest science nonfiction show of them all by expertly transporting its viewers from the outer reaches of the universe to the inside of a chromosome. In the process, it has won a hatful of prizes, including a Peabody Award as TV's best educational program and an Ohio State University citation as the best network culture program...